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Dougie
Nov 197 min read
If a tree falls in a forest ...
It can be odd the ways in which one's mind plays tricks on us. My mind certainly. Today is the 25th anniversary of my arrival in Australia.
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Dougie
Sep 296 min read
Poetic Justice
Not long after you break your neck in three places (in a not-swimming-well-enough accident) people tend to ask a lot of questions.
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Dougie
Jul 206 min read
Not quite Proustian but ... you know.
They do say ... write as if your life depended on it.
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Dougie
May 284 min read
All ears, ginger hair and freckles
Last days of primary school, I think. Maybe 1968 or 69. Look at those ears and the ginger hair!!! The past is indeed a foreign country.
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Dougie
Mar 316 min read
Give me the child until he is seven ...
In the immortal words of John Lennon ... love is all we need.
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Dougie
Mar 100 min read
Mothers Day, UK
Betty and my younger brother Joe. Mothers Day, Kilmarnock Scotland. ♥️
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Dougie
Apr 11, 20237 min read
When I was a child I believed that love is kind ...
"People learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart" Mandela
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Dougie
Jan 12, 20233 min read
Martin Currie
Anyone who wins the best dressed man at the Galway Races, -- without knowing that's 'a thing' -- undeniably has sprawl.
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Dougie
Jun 4, 20223 min read
"the quiet of the day far from the roar of the sun."*
It is in days such as today I find myself. Quiet, simple days where not much happens on the surface. Time passes slowly. I am with people...
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Dougie
Jun 2, 20223 min read
Let Glasgow Flourish
We visited Betty again today for three hours. By the time we said our goodbyes my mother was tired. It was time for us to go. Betty was...
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Dougie
May 30, 20226 min read
In the Second City of the Empire
Glasgow is the city in which I was born. When people ask, "where are you from?" I usually answer "Glasgow" although the fact is I left...
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Dougie
May 29, 20226 min read
The Journey Home ... delayed by a deer on the tracks
The promenade at Weymouth is a peaceful place at seven o'clock on a Sunday morning. The only sounds are those of the natural world. The...
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